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In Memoriam
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Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune
On the Boston Common stands one of the great Civil War memorials, a magnificent bronze sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. It depicts the black soldiers of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry marching alongside their young white commander, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. When the philosopher William James dedicated the memorial in May 1897, he stirred the assembled crowd with these words: "There they march, warm-blooded champions of a better day for man. There on horseback among them, in the very habit as he lived, sits the blue-eyed child of fortune." In this book Shaw speaks for himself with equal eloquence through nearly two hundred letters he wrote to his family and friends during the Ci...
Sons of the Puritans
Biographies of George Frisbee Hoar, Morrill Wyman, Horace Gray, Charles Franklin Dunbar, Phillips Brooks, Francis Channing Barlow, Henry Sturgis Russell, Roger Wolcott, William Eustis Russell, Charles Elliot, and William Henry Baldwin.
"Out Here at the Front"
Publishes for the first time the World War I letters of Nora Saltonstall, a young woman from a prominent New England family who left her comfortable circumstances to volunteer for service on the Western Front.
Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell
First published in 1907 Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell presents the biography and collected correspondence of the nephew of poet and abolitionist leader James Russell Lowell. It spans both the younger Lowell’s collegiate education and his military service in the American Civil War. His letters recount specific military campaigns and articulate the moralistic motivations that led Northern idealists to wage war against "the vineyards where the grapes of wrath are stored."
